On Raboni’s Triumphs against Berlusconi. An Analysis and an Unpublished Text

Abstract

In the early 2000s, Giovanni Raboni’s civil poetry moves between the most coruscating satire and the melancholy of those who feel as if they are at the end of their lives. This mood is expressed through a language and formal codes increasingly close to the modes of propaganda and advertising. Starting from a rediscovered typewritten of the Trionfi (published in the posthumous Ultimi versi, 2006), this study provides a reading and analysis of the expressive strategies of the entire series dedicated to the “cavalier Menzogna,” as well as of an unpublished text found on the manuscript: the Trionfo della Menzogna.